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Adjustments in Agriculture—A Challenge to Agronomy1 I. Implications to Agronomic Education
Author(s) -
Anderson Marvin A.
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1959.00021962005100080019x
Subject(s) - agricultural experiment station , service (business) , library science , state (computer science) , citation , agriculture , extension (predicate logic) , political science , sociology , management , operations research , computer science , mathematics , business , history , marketing , economics , algorithm , archaeology , programming language
The sobering evidence is that farmers have not shared proportionately well with the general economy in this progress. Consider late 1955. Farmers were convinced that something basic must be wrong. They had experienced hard times before—but this was during the depressions in the general economy. But to experience sharp drops in income at a time when their output was at an all time high—when there was full employment—had the appearance of a paradox indeed. The generally recognized problem of burdensome surpluses has caused debate on the political scene and has